Thanks(giving)

Today LPTS Connects (the new volunteer group on campus that we're trying to get going) took a day to help build a Habitat house here in Louisville. Habitat builds (and other things like it) always pull out the best in people. It pulls out the community aspect that we don't normally experience when we sit and study next to each other. Today we were asked to present ourselves at 8:30 in the morning, in 21 degree weather, to measure, cut, climb, and hammer things to a house that we may never enter again. There are so many beautiful things about experiences like this. The woman whose house we worked on this morning is apparently at the house every single day. Every Habitat family is required to put in 400 hours of sweat equity (whether on their own house or someone elses) by the time their house is completed. Well, this particular woman? Before her house had broken ground she had already put in 600 hours. SIX HUNDRED! How amazing is that? This is someone with a full time job and four children, hoping soon to be in her own house. This family is dedicated not only to each other but to their community.

The popular question to third year seminarians is what is next? What are you going to do next year? Well, at this point in time I have no idea. I mean, I know the things that I want to do (love, do service, travel, speak spanish, etc.) then I do something like Habitat and realize that this is exactly what I want to do for the rest of my life...more on this laterrr. Check back in, oh, August to see what the next steps in this awesome adventure are. :)